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Deep Purple Celebrate Year In LP Chart

Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 June 1971

"I'M VERY proud of In Rock. We knew it was going to sell because we'd done six months of concerts and we knew it would do well, but no one expected it to last this long." The "this long" that Deep Purple's bass guitarist, Roger Glover, refers to is the one year in the NME album chart that the phenomenal record has notched up this week.

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